“We’re gonna need a bigger jail” 🤦
Just wait, this will happen with abortions too. They are testing the ground now. If a Republican ever get the white house again, they will use the feds to extradite doctors to Texas.
People need to be yelling about this until they can’t yell anymore. I don’t give a fuck if it ruins Christmas.
Washington should turn around and issue an arrest warrant for this idiot if he keeps on with trying to violate HIPAA.
Yeah, what does he think he is, some kind of big guvmint vaccine mandate coming to take our guns??
And, you know, constitutional law. Texas doesn’t have the right to enforce laws outside it’s borders.
I thought Texas was big on “States Rights!”
Yeah, Texas’ right to interfere with everyone else.
how do jurisdictions work again? can’t Seattle just say go fuck yourself Texas and be done with it?
I’ve been concerned Texas and other states would be looking for this kind of thing for abortions as well. Everyone has been telling me that this kind of thing is impossible and no one would ever try to go after a patient based on medical procedures done out of state.
I’m also concerned that Texas could issue an arrest warrant for medical personnel or people facilitating abortion travel who reside in California (for example) such that it becomes inadvisable to drive through Texas, or even have a layover.
It’s not paranoia if they’re actually after you.
IIRC the way the law works now is that any private citizen, regardless of whether or not they have any sort of relationship with the pregnant person, can sue anyone who “facilitates” abortion for Texas citizens. That includes taxi drivers, family members, maybe even gas station workers, etc. There is also a county that is (or has been) attempting to ban the usage of fucking roads to get to abortion facilities in other states, effectively barring you from travelling anywhere if there is a possibility you may be pregnant. Freedom!
uh, yeah, GFY and good luck enforcing anything.
Exactly.
He is one of the dumbest people on the planet.
How to you put a hospital in jail?
too scared and useless to take on the gangs and criminals, so the Texas AG goes after hospitals and patients… wonder if the Texas Rangers are gonna ride out and grab a fugitive doctor and patient…
They’re gonna need a massive lasso for those hospitals
Who gets jailed? If huge corporations can’t go to jail for the evil shit they do “even though they are people” then a hospital protecting actual people won’t go to jail either.
Nah, they are going after the people in the hospital that deny the order, not the hospital itself. The people in Seattle will be fine as long as they stay in Washington and their state and the feds refuse to extradite, but anyone charged may have trouble when traveling to other states and will be unable to travel through Texas without legitimate fear of detention.
will be unable to travel through Texas without legitimate fear of detention
so… a standard risk for anyone living in Texas, or traveling through Texas
I get your point, but everyone living in or traveling through Texas do not have open criminal warrants, which is what these Seattle hospital workers will have if they don’t comply, and we shouldn’t downplay the litany of problems that come with arrest warrants.
I also get your point, but it’s a relatively minor distinction in Texas.
I know a few people that work a Renaissance Faire there who have gotten pulled over multiple times and almost went to jail because they were doing the speed limit in the slow lane, it was considered suspicious, and they looked like hippies.
And then they gave me a speeding ticket for doing the speed limit, because of the out of state plates. Good old Texas.
As someone who has lived in Texas with warrants and without, I can confirm that it’s not a minor distinction. Luckily I haven’t had to return to Texas in years, but if I do, I will make sure I don’t have any open warrants before doing so. Texas cops will fuck your life up for unpaid traffic fines like you robbed a bank just because they can.
Check my edit if you didn’t see it already.
Yeah, no question they profile heavily in Texas. I’ve been pulled over for the same, but they get pretty trigger happy once they learn you have any sort of warrant, so your risk of death goes up exponentially when stopped with warrants. I had a cop come running at my drivers side door with his gun drawn as soon as he ran my plates and saw my warrant for unpaid speeding ticket.
